Joan Schumaker Joan

Winter 2017

Welcome the New Year with a First Day Hike

After all the food and parties, an easy New 1:00 p.m. Belfast, Route 305 Greenway Inside this Issue Year’s First Day Genesee Valley Greenway Parking Lot, Allegany President’s Message 2 guided hike may be just the thing. Three Two hikes on the same route, 4 miles and 7 outings are planned at different miles, roundtrip. No bathrooms. Phil Austin Memorial 3 Greenway locations. Leashed pets Bench are allowed. Each hike will be out and back and Kristine Uribe: two to four miles in length. If 4, 5 The Time Has Come! 11:00 a.m. Scottsville, weather permits, bring snowshoes Canawaugus Park, Monroe or cross country skis. Don’t be Greenway Annual Meeting 6, 7 County fooled into thinking you don’t Two hikes: south to the Lehigh need to bring water in winter. Valley Trail 4+miles round trip. or Persons versed in local history will Greenway Beginnings 8, 9 north to Route 383 2 miles round help guide each hike. In case of trip. Bathroom available at the winter storm, consult FOGVG A New User Group? 9 Municipal Building in Canawaugus Facebook for cancellation Park. Additional parking at information. For more infor- Member News 10 Municipal Lot behind the Village/Town mation and to register number attending, Hall, 22 Main Street. Salvatore’s Saloon, 11 contact Greenway Park Manager Main Street, will be open for lunch at noon. Kristine Uribe at (585) 493-3614 or [email protected] with 11:00 a.m. Mt. Morris, Route 408 “Registration” on the subject line. Next deadline is Greenway Parking Lot, Livingston 1 March County Two-mile round trip hike from the parking area to the dramatic trail bridge spanning the offering. No bathrooms.

Kristine Uribe

First Day Hike 2017

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President’s Message

Welcome to the latest issue of the Greenway News and the Greenway events by receiving internet reminders. new opportunities winter brings for you on the Greenway. We need winter and also summer events for the Greenway. In addition to snowmobiling there is skiing, riding a fat tire Please let us know if you would be willing to lead a trail bike, or perhaps trying out some new snowshoes. Of event by leaving a message at (585) 658-2569 or contacting course, if there is not substantial snow cover, there is [email protected]. always hiking. Thanks to those who participated in our Sept. 30 ribbon The Genesee Valley Greenway State Park has scheduled cutting, the Nov. 12 trail events and our annual dinner/ three First Day Hikes on the Greenway for January 1. Start meeting. Plan to join us again on January 1 and bring the new year right by joining the hike in Scottsville, in Mt. friends. Everyone is welcome. Morris, or at Rt. 305 near Belfast. Remember that Park Manager Kristine Uribe is requesting that participants in these hikes pre-register. Please see instructions included in this newsletter article on the hikes. The Genesee Valley Greenway State Park Meetup group, https://www.meetup.com/GVGSP-Enthusiasts/, currently has 206 members. If you are not already a member, please join us. This is a way for you to keep up to date on

New Greenway Trail Opens

A one-mile section of new Genesee Valley Greenway trail was officially opened on September 30 with a ribbon cutting at Little Black Creek Park in Chili. The paved trail extends from Little Black Creek south to the CSX Railroad tracks, resulting in three continuous miles of paved Greenway trail extending from Genesee Valley Park to the rail crossing. The newly-opened section of trail closes a long-standing gap in the 90-mile Genesee Valley Greenway State Park. Before the trail section was completed, trail users were required to detour to Scottsville Road. Fran Gotcsik Fran Gotcsik Gotcsik Fran

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Phil Austin Memorial Bench

“Not all who wander are lost” “We have all heard, and many of us have shared stories about being somewhere and suddenly Phil would appear out of the trees. He seemed to materialize out of the network of nature, from childhood up through adulthood. You didn’t hear him, you didn’t expect him; he just was there. … So today we honor him with this bench, for those who would rest, contemplate, breathe, and restore. Not all who wander are lost. Phil may have appeared to be wandering, but actually he was absorbing, observing, learning.” These remarks are excerpted from Cuba Mayor Michele

Miller’s introduction Patterer Marilee during a dedication for the Phil Austin Memorial Bench, installed this

September near the “Irish Cemetery” along the Greenway just north of Above: Cuba Mayor Michele Rockville Lake between Miller at the dedication for the Belfast and Cuba. The memorial bench installed in family donated the money for this handsome bench September. and plaque, and state park Schumaker Joan employees made a concrete base for the

bench.

See a PROBLEM on the Greenway? Let Enforcement Officers Know!

IF IT’S AN EMERGENCY Greenway law enforcement is provided by State Park Police, working together and with state and Dial 911 or call local police forces. Monroe Wyoming, Allegany For non emergency issues call: and and Park Police Dispatch Livingston Counties Cattaraugus Counties 1-800– 255-3577 Greenway Park Manager 585-658-4692 Call 911 585-493-3614 Page 4

The time has come! Kristine Uribe, Manager, Genesee Valley Greenway State Park

On June 2, 2014, it was business as usual for the GVG crew. The morning discussions were filled thoughts of what particular tasks were on the day’s agenda, all mixed with a healthy dose of some good natured joking as is their typical style. As they loaded up their trucks with the equipment they knew they would need, the occasional side conversation would ensue as they stopped to take a sip from the almighty coffee cup. The crew headed out in their small convoy towards the worksite. The plan was to start work on N.Y. 63 near mile marker 26 and head north, hopefully making it to Kristina Schoepfer Fowlerville Rd near mile marker 21 before the day was through. Five miles may not seem like a lot; however, when you are combatting nature and wrestling with

thick vegetation, it might as well be 50. No problem. This was not the crew’s first rodeo, and they were up for the task…or so they thought. Bottom left: A day before the slide Nobody expected the spectacle they witnessed once they Above: Next day from the opposite side rounded the curve where the Genesee River runs very close to the trail. Seemingly overnight, the Greenway was transformed from a tranquil piece of heaven into a surreal Over the next three years, the regional engineering nightmare. There it was. A large fracture running diagonally department and management at cross the trail like a lightning bolt. The east side of the trail toiled over how to go about a fix. They knew this was not had sunk down a foot or more in some places. The way the going to be easy. The cost to stabilize an ever-changing crew described it to me, as this occurred before I took over environment is not only enormous, but risky. The Genesee the park manager position, it was like someone punched River has a history of moving itself at will and all we can do them in the stomach and knocked the wind right out of is try to stay out of its way. Enter the Abbey. them. The crew takes their trail seriously. They have a lot The Abbey of the Genesee is a community of more than of pride in what they do. But this? They felt helpless as they two dozen contemplative monks. They are a member of knew what would transpire next and all they could do was the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, wait for it to happen. And it did, the very next day. commonly known as the Trappists. They have a vast Imagine if a moving train had come upon this fracture amount of property in this area, part of which is directly suddenly back in the 1950s! adjacent to the washed-out section. And here lay the solution. The concept was to obtain an easement along the edge of their field in which we would create a by-pass until it was safe to return to the original course. The monks were very understanding towards our cause and agreed to help us. I wish to thank each and every one of them for persevering through our state bureaucracy. It took three years to cut through the red tape, but we did Kristina Schoepfer Kristina Schoepfer it. A few weeks before Thanksgiving, we were given the green light to plot out the new trail. In the last newsletter, I compared traveling

Page 5 through the Conrail property as one of those days you wait your entire career for. Well, now I have two of those days under my belt. Being out on the trail with our senior engineers and trying to decide the best layout of the new trail was exhilarating. I didn’t care about the thorny undergrowth catching on every piece of clothing possible and then slapping me in the face. I didn’t care about the muddy terrain, nor the realization of how out of shape I am. What I did care about was the hours spent by many trying to make this work, and now the ball is in our court to make it happen. It may have been only a few hours I was out there, but it filled me with hope and re- established my belief that if we work hard enough, persevere long enough and keep an open mind we can literally move heaven and earth with positive results. Kristine Uribe

Left and above: New Abbey Trail

Moving forward, we will continue to construct the trail over the next month or so until winter sets in and finish up when the weather breaks, if needed. Afterwards, we will tackle the newest washout just up the trail, north of York Landing. Thank you all for being patient until this favorable day arrived. Thank you all for your continued support of our beloved Kristine Uribe Greenway. Happy Holidays and wishing all the best in the coming new year!

The Friends of the Genesee Valley Greenway, Inc. (the Friends, or simply "FOGVG") is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit membership organization, incorporated in 1993. The mission of the Friends is to assist in the development, protection, promotion, and maintenance of ’s Genesee Valley Greenway State Park in accordance with guidelines established in the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) Genesee Valley Greenway Management Plan and to support and promote other non-motorized recreational opportunities for the general public along the Genesee Valley Greenway. Page 6

Greenway Annual Meeting on November 12th Marilee Patterer and Irene Szabo

The air was crisp as five of us from the Friends of the Genesee Valley Greenway and four from the Springwater Trails hiking group gathered at the parking lot in Sonyea State Forest, while others walked the Greenway down in Mt. Morris village. We walked the forested road for a ways and then some of the participants descended to the gorge below where Keshequa Creek runs, and, long ago, the , followed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Branch. Those who descended into the gorge went down a road that I was able to drive a normal car upon about 25 years ago, but subsequent floods of Keshequa Creek have cut that old road off to a steep Patterer Marilee end. Larry Seamans is very familiar with the area so agreed to lead those intrepid souls who descended, and they were fascinated by just how much of the railbed and canal infrastructure was still evident … but only in bits and pieces due to frequent floods. Featured Speaker, Thru Three of us stayed on the dirt forest road and hiked Hiker Pat Coate down into Groveland Correctional Facility on the clearly signed Greenway route. It was interesting to religious sect was sold to the state for the epileptic observe the massive amount of barbed wire fencing asylum, which later became Craig Colony for various around what is now the prison. Many of the solid treatments of retarded citizens. The most recent brick buildings of the former Sonyea facility are no iteration of state ownership has split the old Craig longer in use, these dating from its time as the State of Colony and its hilltop farms and vineyards into the New York Epileptic Asylum ( = SONYEA). What had Groveland Correctional Facility, with the forested been originally a large property owned by the Shaker back end split off to become Sonyea State Forest. On our way back to the cars, we stopped at one of the cemeteries for the former Sonyea facility. What a sad sight!! Many of the metal markers have rusted away. Nobody seems to care. In a few years there will be no evidence of the cemetery except for one nice little granite stone. Somebody cared about one of them! Following our hike, we drove back to the VFW in Mt. Morris and listened to our speaker for the afternoon. Pat Coate of Allegany present a well-delivered and Fran Gotcsik Gotcsik Fran humorous PowerPoint talk "A Long Walk: My Journey Along the AT.” In 2014, when Pat hiked the Appalachian Trail, the distance was 2,185.3 miles, but this distance varies from year to year. The trail is a Our guide Larry Seaman explains an old stone rail- footpath from Springer Mt., Georgia, to Mt. Katahdin, road culvert that carried hillside water down to the Maine. The AT passes through 14 states and generally Keshequa Creek below the obvious railbed just follows the Appalachian Mountains. There is a 5,000 above. foot elevation change with 6655 feet being the highest Page 7

and 124 the lowest elevations. The average time to her backpack. She got water from a creek and used hike the whole trail is 5 to 7 months. The trail was her purification supplies to make it safe to use. completed in 1937, but was mostly roads and private She carried water shoes to wear when crossing land. Now it is 99% public land and is largely streams. Sometimes rope was strung across high maintained by volunteers. water to help the AT hikers cross. At the Kennebec The AT crosses hundreds of roads making easy access River, hikers are required to take a canoe ride because to towns for supplies, a shower, a hostel or hotel for a there had been accidents previously. good night's sleep, or to get mail. Then again, there At night, Pat stayed in her tent about 63% of the time. are stretches where one walks for days without There are 270 shelters along the AT which ranged crossing a road, like the infamous hundred mile from crude to fancy. Sometimes, she stayed in one of wilderness in Maine. There were 2500 attempts to these shelters as it was fun to get together to chat or hike the whole trail in 2014. By the time the hikers barter for something she needed. Along the trail, there arrived at the midway point of the trail at Harpers are also hostels that cater to hikers. Occasionally, she Ferry 1267 remained with only 644 completing the went into a town and stayed in a motel to relax and trail in 2014. With the production of the Hollywood have a change of pace. She said that the privies also film, A Walk in the Woods, the number of attempts has varied greatly in quality. Most had some type of increased significantly. enclosure, but some did not. Pat spent much time preparing for the trip. She hiked Pat also talked about some quirks of the trail. Trail 4 or 5 times a week for 6 to 15 miles with a 30 pound magic is when people put out a cooler with "goodies" backpack on steep hills. Joyce Ermer, who is a very along the trail. A hiker really appreciates home skilled hiker and a Finger Lakes Trail end-to-ender, cooked food like brownies or cookies. Some people sometimes hiked with her to give her company and also put out jugs of water for the hikers. Boy Scouts encouragement. Her backpack contained cooking and sometimes do "trail magic" as well. Trail Angels give water purification supplies. She had the neatest little support to the hikers. They might provide a ride, for stove that used denatured alcohol. The backpack also instance. Pat said that there were some very generous contained shelter and sleeping supplies like a tent, people along the trail. sleeping bag, pillow, etc. Her clothes consisted of a down sweater, raincoat and pants, shoes, hat, socks. We ended the annual meeting with a delicious pot Miscellaneous supplies included headlamp, cell luck meal and a short business meeting. At the phone, camera, guide book, compass, etc. Of course, business meeting our board was voted in as shown on Pat also carried water and 4 days’ supply of food in the last page (no changes).

And to keep spring alive in your vision… By Mark Getzin (excerpted from a September article published in the Patriot and Free Press: serving Allegany County since 1862. Mark is a member of the Southerntier Hiking Group.)

This year my first hike outside Allegany County took staghorn sumac, basswood, red oak, sugar maple, place north of Scottsville on the Greenway. Here, Mr. yellow birch, hop hornbeam, honeysuckle, dogwood, Elijah Kruger from the educational staff of Letchworth black cherry, choke cherry, tulip trees, cotton wood State Park led us on a 3.4-mile hike from Brook Road and elm. We learned to differentiate between the to the Double Arch culverts across Black Creek and eastern tent caterpillar which is black with a white back. Elijah has a wealth of knowledge about birds, stripe down its back and the forest tent caterpillar trees, and animals. We heard the melodic opera of the which is black with white dots down its back. Finally, red breasted grosbeak as well as many warblers, we viewed the Double Arch Culverts, which are one of thrushes, cowbirds, and catbirds. We viewed and the most spectacular man-made artifacts along the discussed silver maple, honey locust, swamp oak, former Genesee Valley Canal. Page 8

Greenway Beginnings – Earlier than you think Text and Pictures by Fran Gotcsik

It is easy to think of the Genesee Valley Greenway as a rather recent phenomenon, though not too recent, as 2017 Calling All Photographers marked its 25th anniversary. The first two miles of trail were – a chance to add to the new FOGVG website opened in July 1992 in the Village of Mt. Morris. But the Greenway story actually began long before that when the The Friends of the Greenway are creating a new corridor was first used as a transportation route. From website, with assistance from a Parks & Trails New 1840 to 1878, the corridor served as the Genesee Valley York - NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Canal and then from 1882 to 1964 as the Pennsylvania Preservation Partnership Grant. A central feature will be Railroad, Rochester Branch. gorgeous images of the trail in all seasons and at 120 years ago a bike path multiple locations along the Greenway’s 90-mile length. Unbelievable today but beginning in 1896, cyclists pedaled If you have beautiful, high resolution images showing parallel to Pennsylvania trains between Genesee Valley people bicycling, walking, cross country skiing, Park and the Village of Scottsville on the Scottsville to horseback riding, and snowshoeing and enjoying the Rochester Sidepath. Built as a cinder path on the other historic small towns along the trail, the Friends may be (berm) side of the canal prism, the sidepath was created interested in including them on the website. There is no because the condition of the city’s streets and roads made guarantee the photos will be used, but if they are you riding impossible and the City of Rochester had banned will receive a photo credit. Email photos to bicyclists from the sidewalks. With the coming of the [email protected]. automobile, the sidepath was abandoned by 1907, but to this day there is evidence of its existence. corridor was recognized as having recreational potential. In Railroad abandonments set the stage for future trail addition, in the 1980s, the section of Genesee Valley Canal use and Penn Central railroad corridor within Monroe County After World War II, the proliferation of cars and trucks was identified by the County as the Penn Central Trail and caused railroad revenues to decline. In 1962, the deemed one of the top four priority trails in its Pennsylvania Railroad petitioned the Interstate Commerce Recreationway System. Commission for permission to abandon its unprofitable State Parks undertakes acquisitions lines, including the sections of the Rochester Branch in Between 1967 and 1978, State Parks acquired sections of Livingston, Wyoming, Allegany and Cattaraugus counties. canal and railroad corridor in Portage and Leicester The Monroe County portion of the rail line between surrounding Letchworth State Park. But the possibility of Wadsworth Junction at the Livingston/Monroe County trail did not begin to materialize until 1984 when State border and the City of Rochester was retained. This Parks paid $155,000 for the 10 miles of rail bed and former allowed Pennsylvania trains to travel from Buffalo east over canal between Wadsworth Junction and where the Monroe the Lehigh Valley Black Diamond tracks to Wadsworth County Public Safety Training Academy is today on Junction where a spur connected them to the Pennsylvania Scottsville Road. tracks to journey north to Rochester. After the Not included in the purchase were the Penn Central tracks Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads merged in between Genesee Junction and Little Black Creek. To this 1968, the Monroe County section of the Rochester Branch day the tracks are used by CSX freight trains accessing 84 was also abandoned and the tracks and ties removed. Lumber on Scottsville Road, south of Little Black Creek. Trail proposed more than 40 years ago This still active rail line is why the newly opened trail along At about the same time, the NYS Canal Recreation Scottsville Road was needed between Little Black Creek Development Program was established when the NYS and Genesee Junction. Office of Parks and Recreation and NYS Department of In 1986, just about the time that the concept of rails to Transportation formally agreed to develop the 524-mile trails was taking shape nationally, Monroe County entered canal system for recreational purposes in 1972. As part of into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with State this Program, and now more than 45 year ago, The Old Genesee Valley Canal Trail was proposed as a state (Continued ...) recreation trail. Nothing further happened, but at least the Page 9

Parks to cooperatively develop, operate, and maintain the 10 miles of corridor for recreational purposes. However, due to budget constraints, no trail development took place. At the same time, officials from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and representatives of the Finger Lakes Trail Conference discussed the possibility of the State acquiring the remaining 80 miles of Rochester Gas & Electric (RG&E)-owned portions of the corridor using funds from the Environmental Quality Bond Act, approved by New York voters in 1986. Negotiations began with RG&E, but did not progress far enough so that the corridor could be purchased with funds from the 1986 Bond Act. The pieces all fall into place Above: The ribbon cutting in Mt. Morris village, the first section opened, in 1992. Joe Regal is wielding the scissors. There may have been no 90-mile trail yet, but these multiple efforts provided the recognition, visibility and 10 miles of state ownership that eventually attracted Parks & Trails New York and RG&E in 1991 to launch a broad based local government, state agency, and community effort aimed at finally initiating trail development. In 1992, the first two miles of Greenway trail were opened in Mt. A new user group for the Greenway?

You just never know who or what you’ll see on the Greenway. On Saturday December 9th on a walk in Nunda, I could see two blaze-orange clad people ahead. I was being generally blinded by the 3 PM sun right in my eyes, so couldn’t tell what they were doing, but I hoped that my little blaze orange hat would keep me safe. It turned out that it was a couple, he an apprentice falconer, with their juvenile redtail hawk who was learning to return to them upon signal. He was having his own “walk” as they tried to scare up squirrels from the trees to give him some exercise. Aftermath of the ’91 ice storm On my way back later, he was on one gloved hand, with his hood on, and I got to see him close up. Morris under a licensing agreement between RG&E and The hawk will be returned to the wild next year. Of the Village. course I didn’t have a camera with me, not even a Three years later, the Greenway as we know it was officially measly phone, so there are no pictures for this tale. launched. NYSDEC, State Parks, and the Friends of the But you just never know whom you’ll see enjoying Genesee Valley Greenway partnered to obtain $2.5 million the Greenway, do you? At the end of my walk, a in federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency hunter with a rifle was just entering the trail. Act funds that would provide the resources to acquire the remaining 80 miles of corridor from RG&E and begin trail Irene Szabo development between Genesee Valley and Letchworth Parks. Page 10 Membership News

DID YOU REMEMBER TO RENEW? The time to renew or become a new member is now. The FOGVG membership year is from September 1 through August 31. Current members are listed below. If you are not presently a member, renew or become a new member for 2017-18. To join or renew, go to our website at www.fogvg.org where you can download a form or complete your membership and payment online. NOTE: In the future we can afford to print and send paper copies only to current members who request that we mail their newsletters. Join the Friends to ensure that you continue to receive the newsletter electronically or by the USPS.

A BIG THANK YOU to all our members for their generous support. 2017-18 FOGVG Members

Crystal Abers Edward “Ned” Holmes Stephanie Spittal Ron & Mary Abraham Alan Hopenwasser Springwater Trails, Inc. # Joan Armbruster Peter & Sally Humphrey Greta Stephany Andrea Barber *Allen Kerkeslager Robert L Stear & Louise Bickel David L. Kipp Gary R. Maneebey Terry Bohling # James & Susan Knauer David & Grace Strong George & Nancy Brinkwart *Lakeland Rovers Hiking Club Irene Szabo Thomas Burkman Paul & Roberta Mac Lean Jo Taylor *Michael S. Buskus James & Jeanette Maxim Alice Thompson Tom & Barb Byrnes Michele Mc Call & Amy Stanley *Pat Tindale Ronald De Groff James Mc Master Mary E. Tyndall *Tony D'Imperio & Louise Michaud Davies Nagel Mary Innes Wagner Cody & Katie Donahue # Joe & Marilee Patterer *Norman Wetterau Dwight Folts Ric & Sandy Perry Robert Wheeler Mark Getzin Pete and Sue Piraino Family *Chan & Karen Whitford Coleridge Gill David & Ruth Reid Robert A. Wood Jeff Goodyear Jennifer Ries-Taggart Charles Woolever *George & Frances Gotcsik Thomas Rodwell Peter Wybron Peter Gradoni Gary & Cheryl Rouleau Robert Younger Carole Grooms Ronald & Linda Sallade Mary Gulesano *Fred & Gerry Sauter * Membership/Donations of $100 or more in 2017- Will Haines # *Joan Schumaker 18. Thank you! Myra Herlihy Larry & Joy Seaman # NEW Members in 2017-18 . Welcome! Hinsdale Historical Society David A. Shaw

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for their Support Exciting New Terrain! Page 11

Apparently Marilee Patterer visits her trail section north of Cuba frequently and in all seasons, because she shared several pictures of local Amish harvesting ice from frozen canal water. Often one sees a Styrofoam block shed in the yard, which is their refrigeration shed, and now in winter, the ice is free. Above, a young man has a team pulling a sled filled with ice blocks. We won't use a picture taken of the Amish unless the face is obscured, by their request.

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Board of Directors Long before the Greenway … Joan Schumaker President there was a railroad

Davies Nagel Vice-President Joe Patterer Vice-President

Coleridge Gill Secretary Fran Gotcsik Treasurer

Crystal Abers Jeff Goodyear Ned Holmes Paul MacLean Marilee Patterer James Maxim Steph Spittal Irene Szabo

Irene Szabo Newsletter Editor

Jo Taylor Layout

Send your photos and stories to Irene at [email protected] Norfolk Southern's new single arch bridge over Letchworth gorge carries its first train. 11 December 2017 All I had heard was that the first train over the new bridge should go between noon and two, so naturally I stood there from noon to 2:30 when a three-engine train finally crept slowly onto the arch and... stopped! It was 25 degrees and www.facebook.com/ luckily not windy, but such a gloomy day that distance shots looked like this was black and white film, with no colors FOGVG/ visible until I zoomed in on a guy walking the old bridge in lime-green safety garb. www.facebook.com/ Worst of all, the old bridge eclipsed the top half of the train from our lowly vantage point below on a park trail. Fortu- Genesee-Valley- nately John Kucko of WROC Channel 8 News in Rochester had a drone in the air so took this vastly better picture. In Greenway-State-Park his picture, we are looking down on the new bridge from the south, so the old bridge, scheduled to come down next year, is beyond. The Greenway goes under the bridges on the right side in this view, so we can hope it will reopen soon. The last train over the old bridge crossed this morning at 6:30 after which the tracks to tie old into new were finished. Irene Szabo